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Cherry Trojan, I think, is some slang that developed for the piece that forced mynokia subscription upon PR1.2 update.

That's the best I could come up with through power search of this forum.

Edit:

Here's the thread, on the page where I got the info to make the above conclusion:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=57214&page=13

There's something about a .cherry_state file, and just in general rambling about the MyNokia subscription thing.

Last edited by Mentalist Traceur; 2010-10-03 at 22:31. Reason: More details; typo
 

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I think Nokia should focus on building hardware and let the software be developed elsewhere. I can understand why some of maemo5 are closed but do not accept or agree upon it. Although the OS is pretty awesome it could have been even more awesome.

I hope Nokia will open up more.. especially the contacts widget. Also to make more easy to change to different OS. For that maybe a more open BME would be needed.

So even if Nokia have not gone the full yard yet.. they have brought us open-source lovers closer. They could easily have taken the other route. And Meego will take it a step further on that road.
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#23
Originally Posted by Benson View Post
Assuming we're not suddenly discussing flavored condoms, I have no clue what "cherry trojan" meant, and Google returns little of relevance.

Enlightenment, please?
The primary threads are:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=57214
and
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=53565

The first one was already mentioned above, but I don't thing page 13 is the best place to start reading it.
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Originally Posted by Matan View Post
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No. The firmware is close because Nokia chose that it be close. There is no law requiring it to be close.
I've been told that there is a law, i think in the UK, against "providing hacking tools", that Nokia would be prosecuted under if they released open GSM drivers and firmware and someone used those for evil purposes
 
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Originally Posted by TiagoTiago View Post
I've been told that there is a law, i think in the UK, against "providing hacking tools", that Nokia would be prosecuted under if they released open GSM drivers and firmware and someone used those for evil purposes
By that logic you can't sell computers in the UK, since they could be used for "evil purposes." I suspect the law is different from how you describe it.

Oh and IIRC the GSM firmware isn't Nokia's. I believe they sold their baseband group to Renesas and it is in fact their baseband firmware.
 
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Good news is there is actually an opensource GSM stack being developed. Bad news is, it's only GSM, and everything else is a lot more complicated. Worse news is that it's at the very earliest stages - last I read up on it it was able to listen to GSM signals, but not send anything.

And each hardware port is it's own challenge.
 
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